Sr Reservoir Engineer

Professional Summary

Accomplished petroleum exploration and production manager of people and projects. Proven broad-based experience in multi-disciplinary exploitation of petroleum reserves, SEC-based reserve forecasting, evaluation work in acquisition and divestitures, information technology and project management.

1 12+ years management experience

2 International business experience

3 Retail operations management

4 Fluent in English and Spanish

5 Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), active member

Professional Experience

Senior Reservoir Engineer – Berry Petroleum, Inc. 2008 - 2009

1 Reservoir engineer with responsibility for the Piceance Basin assets, which includes 118 producing gas wells and 1000 to be drilled by 2017.

2 Create and implement full asset development plan for the Piceance Basin, including drilling, environmental impact, and weather constraints, governmental regulatory agencies (state, local and federal).

3 Responsible for the drilling schedule, combining lease obligations, environmental constraints, weather and seasonal constraints, and improving reserves as quickly as possible. Extensive involvement with environmental and regulatory agencies as the Piceance Basin is a focal point for environmental issues in Colorado. Maintain excellent relations with the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and Federal Bureau of Land Management offices in Denver and Glenwood Springs.

4 Experienced in ARIES forecasting for quarterly review and annual budgets. Analysis based on the latest SPE-based SEC rules and guidelines. Responsible for crafting, maintaining and monitoring compliance with $142 million annual capital budget.

5 Production data analysis to isolate problem wells (liquid loading, compression problems, interference, etc).

6 Work with and liaise with partners (other operating companies) and investors.

7 Working with and training junior engineers and technical staff.

8 Lead small workgroup to study completion techniques (alternative frac approach) used by offset operators and make recommendations for future activity.

Senior Product Manager – Joint Venture Products - Oildex Inc. 2008

1 Managed joint venture product line, including JIB Relations (joint interest billing software), CDEX (check stub information sharing) and ORC (owner relations sites).

2 Led a successful effort to find the replacement for an archaic system of data transmission, leading to significant savings in development time, training and support.

3 Formulated a road map for near-term product development.

Director of Professional Services - Oildex Inc. 2007

1 Responsible for all non-recurring revenue projects and implementations for both product lines of Oildex, Joint Venture and Spendworks.

2 Successfully retained a multi-million dollar account by resolving personality conflicts and reorganizing the client's implementation project.

3 Implemented the daptiv project management system, leading to more timely and cost-effective control of implementation and customization projects.

4 Responsible for the Spendworks e-payables online system (Software as a Service, “SaaS”).

5 Increased one-time revenue (implementations) and recurring revenue (monthly invoice count) by forming effective teams with sales, implementation developers and project managers.

6 Developed and taught a one-day class for internal staff. The intent was to instill an understanding of how all the various components of a petroleum exploration and production interact with each other, their partners and vendors.

Chief Information Officer - Venoco, Inc. 2006 – 2007

1 Responsible for charting policy and deploying software for Venoco, a 250 person exploration and production company with operations in California and Texas, and corporate offices in Denver.

2 Implementations included Merrick Systems, Wellcore, Wellbase and the Oildex Spendworks SaaS platform.

3 Instrumental in design and implementation of SCADA upgrades throughout the Sac Basin and the $430 million acquisition of TexCal.

4 Represent information technology efforst of the company at weekly executive management meetings.

5 Lead IT group of four to six technicians, developers and database manager.

Petroleum Engineer - Venoco, Inc. 2004 – 2006

1 Sole engineer with responsibility for the Sacramento Basin assets, which included 300+ gas wells.

2 Increased production five-fold through workovers and recompletions, and assisted in preparing prognoses for the accelerated infill drilling program. Worked extensively with field supervisor to mitigate liquid-loading problems, many wells responded with a doubling of production when switched from soap sticks to more effective unloading methods.

3 Developed an extensive database to house and retrieve all well-related materials including log snippets, reserves information, perfed intervals and workover information, mud log data and gas shows, links to California DOG site, etc.

4 Performed production data analysis using Dr. James Crafton's Reciprocal Productivity Index (RPI). Assisted in basin-wide acquisition targeting using RPI, high-grading prospects in higher-perm areas (mostly due to natural fractured systems.

5 Analyzed and recommended acquisition targets; looking at existing PDP production, as well as PDNP and PUDs for infill and recompletion potential.

6 Experienced in evaluation of oil and gas properties, using ARIES and working with Ryder-Scott and Netherland-Sewell.

7 Supervised hydraulic fracture jobs, the first successful ones in the Sacramento Basin.

8 Evaluated and helped coordinate purchase of the Hastings Field (the “TexCal Acquisition”), a mature waterflood in south Texas. Helped revise waterflood forecast, as well as initial study for conversion to CO2 flood.

Self Employed . 2003 – 2004

1 Developed and managed database-driven web sites for corporations in South Florida.

Chief Technology Officer (Reservoir Engineer) - Performance Sciences, Inc. 2000 – 2002

2 Software program development and corporate training for privately-held petroleum-related IT company.

3 Design and produce industry short courses, online tutorials and windows help for the company’s Reciprocal Productivity Index Method (RPI) software package.

4 Reservoir engineering consulting with clients as need arose; analyzing thousands of wells’ production data for drainage area, effective permeability, skin effect, fracture effectiveness, EUR, etc.

5 Analysis of production data from steamflood projects in California and waterflood projects in Oklahoma. Principal targets were breakthrough prediction and drainage radius estimates.

6 Responsible for the development and management of the company’s dynamic web site. Usage included Dreamweaver, Visual Basic 6, Flash, Fireworks, Help & Manual 3.

Chief Technology Officer - OptimizeUSA Inc 1999 – 2000

1 Program development and implementation for fledgling financial services start-up.

2 Web site based on Mean Variance Optimization (MVO) to optimize client portfolios.

3 Responsible for development and maintenance of 300+ pages, equally divided between English, Spanish & Portuguese. Web site designed to provide information on indexing (categorizing assets to improve forecasting).

President - Paxiam Corporation 1998 – 1999

2 Developed and marketed an import/export transportation management system designed for freight forwarders and couriers. Application to ocean, air and truck freight systems.

President - Kindertoys Corp 1997 – 1998

3 Operations including P&L, retail marketing, staff recruitment and supervision, sales training and product knowledge, and lease negotiations.

4 Opened and managed Charly & Hannah’s, a highly successful regional children’s toy retailer, winner of multiple awards as “Best Children’s Toy Store in Miami.”

5 Developed point-of-sale software later sold by Paxiam Corporation.

General Manager - Kress International Inc 1989 – 1997

1 Management and operations for regional chain of ten women’s apparel stores in South Florida.

2 Responsibilities included personnel (recruitment of personnel, training of office and store workforce), supervision of warehouse and distribution activities, software implementation and development, comptroller functions.

3 Supervised 80 to 120 employees including HR and safety functions, and customer-relations management program implementation.

Petroleum Engineer - Union Oil Company of California (later UNOCAL) 1981 – 1985

3 Responsible for extensive workover program in Santa Paula, Ca. Selected and implemented successful recompletions in wells (some of which were nearly 100 years old and cased with wood!). Repair and re-sizing of lifting systems (PCP pumps primarily) led to an increase in production of nearly 170% in one field in two years, 230% increase in production in another within three years. Initiated and selected zones for recompletions in bypassed pay zones.

4 Completed company training program consisting of rotation between drilling, production and reservoir engineering departments.

5 Compiled data and wrote in-house study on jars and bumper subs.

Education

Master of Science, Petroleum Engineering 1988

• Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO

• Developed and taught graduate course sequence; “Applied Artificial Intelligence in the Oilfield.”

• Thesis Title: “Hydraulic Fracture Fluid Leakoff Analysis”

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Bachelor of Science, Petroleum Engineering 1981

• Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO

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